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Excerpt from The Triumph of Bras: A Political Satire, in Prose and Verse
Parliament who felt it necessary that they shouldprotest against the Governmental methods of handling a strike. This substitute in high places for the Yah and Boo of the lowlier is (by comparison) much worse than a mere equivalent. Personally I hold the view that the lawlessness of the Wellington Strike Riots needed severe repression; but just as whole heartedly do I asseverate that a resolute and resource ful Minister of Justice would have prevented the riots and obviated any need for the special constables, by manning with fifty regular police the head of the Queen's Wharf, barricading it efficiently, and con ducting the whole of the waterfront's urgent activi ties through the one entrance. But no! Mediocrity. Always moves slowly; and the slow movements of this particular mediomity resulted in a thousand batons becoming necessary where previously half a hundred uniforms would have sufficed. But' while personally I am for lawful procedures, let me insist, in the name of that very Law, that such unlawful suppression of free speech (and especially the speech of men who speak with ten thousand electoral voices), by those great Retrogressives who are now holding the reins of office in this country, is more heinous in its of fensiveness because the offence is that of men high placed. A man's cause is no stronger than its merits, but his words and his arguments - however illogical and no matter how unbalanced - are deserving to be heard by right of the blood Spilt and the immurement endured on a hundred British and French fields and in a thousand prisons any time these ten hundred years.
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